Take a look at the 'bind' tag in the Jakarta Taglibs Unstandard tag library. See:
http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/sandbox/doc/unstandard-doc/index.html#bind I have a useConstants tag that I've been meaning to donate that exposes all of the constants in a class, but I haven't got around to that yet. -- Martin Cooper On 8/30/05, Luca Passani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there, here is my big problem today. I am using JSTL in some JSPs. > SInce this is a struts project, I would > like to keep my views totally separated from the Java APIs. For this > reason, I need your advice about the > most elegant to compare a given object "type" (an int constant) with the > possible values using the COSTANT name, > instead of the corresponding int. > The API defines the types of my object as: > > public interface ContentType { > > public static final int FOLDER = 1; > public static final int URL = 2; > } > > in my JSP I have (loop over collection of items with getType() returning > the type int) > > <c:forEach var="item" items="${content_list}"> > <c:choose> > <c:when test="${item.type == 2}"> > <a href="${item.value}"><c:out value="${item.name <http://item.name> > }"/></a> > </c:when> > : > > I would like to do something like: > > a) <c:when test="${item.type == ContentType.URL}"> > > This won't work. I could hack it around with a scriptlet and an import > at the top of my JSP, but that seems to me like > violating the separation between View and Control > > b) I could do something like this in my action: > > String type_url = "5"; > request.setAttribute("url", type_url); > > and then <c:when test="${item.type == url}"> > > but makes me wonder if having this code in the action really makes sense. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > Luca > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
